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/8 6t0 The German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia IV/1 e - 5410 Rofchr. OVSW e's ab I./ To the Lord Mayor of the City of Duisburg by Mr. City Councillor K i n d , ganqstna Betr.1 Grant for Duisburg Opera - Rechmungejah 1943/44. Taking into account the accounts I have received, I am now prepared to pay the city of Duisburg the special grant of RM 350,000.- to the budget of the Duisburg Opera House. I stress here that there is no legal obligation for this payment, but that it is done voluntarily in recognition of the performances of the opera during the past season in Prague. This payment is also not a compensation for the previously not instructed grant of the Reich Minister of the Interior, whose procurement you had at that time been promised by the representative of the Empire Minister for People's Enlightenment and Propaganda, and for the purpose of which you would have to remain silent.